On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 19:53 -0400, gene glick wrote: > I'm not sure if it's coincidental with me upgrading to Slackware 12.2 > (and a new version of kernel), but PCB has really slowed down. The > screen repainting is painfully slow and it's particularly obvious when > zooming in. I can press the "z" key perhaps 10 times, then go have a > cup of coffee while it zooms in and does the repaint. The repainting of > rats is also slow, which can be seen when the rats are visible and I > move a part somewhere. > > Previously, my design had around 3000 parts but I've reduced it by > making a few smaller plug-in cards. I'm not sure of the current part count. > > I can say, that the more visible stuff is on the screen, the slower it > becomes. So I can turn off the planes and things improve. Turn off the > rats, again it improves. Once I am zoomed in enough that there's not > too much extra stuff on the page, it is reasonably sporty.
Polygons make stuff slow. Perhaps running with a compositing window manager makes things slow, (unsubstantiated suggestion to test without if you are using one). Compiz really messed up gschem performance until the drawing model was fixed. I "think" PCB's is ok though, (and I'm using compiz myself - with the GL branch) > My version of PCB is 20081128 with a couple of patches from Peter Clifton. I assume you're using the GTK HID. Remind me which patches you're using? -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
